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REGULATIONS MADE BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL, IN
1010, AS TO UNDERGROUND ROOMS HABITUALLY
USED AS SLEEPING PLACES.
Whereas by Section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1909, it is enacted as follows:—
Sub-Section 7. A room habitually used as a sleeping place, the
surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below the surface
of the part of t'he street adjoining or nearest to the room, shall for the
purposes of this Section be deemed to be a dwelling-house so dangerous
or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, if the room
either:—
(a) Is not on an average at least seven feet in height from
floor to ceiling; or
(b) Does not comply with such regulations as the local
authority, with the consent of the Local Government
Board, may prescribe for securing the proper
ventilation and lighting of such rooms, and the
protection thereof against dampness, effluvia, or
exhalation. Provided that if the Local Sanitary
Authority fail to make such regulations, or such
regulations as the Board approve, t'he Board may
themselves make them, and the regulations so made
shall have effect as if they had been made by the local
authority, with the consent of the Board.
Provided that a closing order made in respect of a room to which
this Sub-Section applies shall not prevent the room being used for
purposes other than those of a sleeping place; and that, if the occupier
of the room, after notice of an order has been served upon him, fails
to comply with the order, an order to comply therewith may, on
summary conviction, be made against him.
Now, therefore, we, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of
the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, being the local
authority for the said Metropolitan Borough, hereby prescribe the
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